Lot 560
PETER WAALS (1870 - 1937)
EXTENDING DINING TABLE, CIRCA 1935
Auction: Design Since 1860 | 21 October 2021 From 10:00
Description
walnut, with chequered beaded inlay and single drop-in leaf
Dimensions
158cm closed, 99cm deep, 77cm high, 234cm extended
Provenance
Provenance: From The Millinery Works Collection.
Footnote
Provenance: Arthur Mitchell; thence by descent.
Note: Arthur Mitchell, whose father Henry founded the Smethwick brewery that would become Mitchells & Butlers, was a great patron of Cotswolds School craftsmen. Peter van der Waals was the foreman and chief cabinet maker for Ernest Gimson at Daneway, Cirencester and opened his own workshop in 1920 at Chalford, near Stroud. With this table, Waals is adapting the chamfered 'hayrake' stretcher, first developed by Gimson and Sidney Barnsley at Sapperton in the early years of the 20th century.